I like the work I'm doing at IBM (mostly nonprofit projects funded by IBM grants, yay changing the world!), but it's interesting to see lots of demand for Drupal and Rails skills. I want to get wizardly at Rails and/or Drupal, and I think this will be fun.

Winter vegetables: Thanks to the community-supported agriculture program, we have three butternut squashes, one pepper squash, lots of turnips, and lots of kale. We've just gotten through turning all those beets into borscht. I'm learning about all these winter vegetables. Fortunately, Cheap Vegetable Gardener has tips on what to do when you're swimming in kale, beets, squash, mustard, or chives.

Publishing an e-book: Allison Abel shares tips on publishing your own e-book. I'm collecting data and ideas for a possible mini-book on quantifying life and changing behavior, so I'll want to come back to this post and other tips on this topic.